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Director, Field Leadership & Strategic Accounts, California South

Genentech Open · verified Sep 24, 2026
California Full-time Director Account Management

At a glance

Leadership Account Management role at Genentech. California · full-time · $209,900–$389,900 base.

SalaryStated by Genentech
$209,900 – $389,900
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
RoleAccount Management
SeniorityDirector
LocationCalifornia
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$209,900–$389,900
PostedSep 23, 2026 · 1d ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Lead a diverse commercial team serving healthcare ecosystem accounts across Southern California and Hawaii
  • Build healthcare stakeholder relationships and co-create solutions addressing patient outcomes, costs, and care quality
  • Shape ecosystem strategy with the Executive Director and help squads pursue customer-enhancing partnerships
  • Create and deliver account plans for target customers, while coordinating priorities across products and therapeutic areas
  • Coach and motivate specialists, maintain compliant ecosystem engagement, and travel for customer needs and conferences

What you bring

  • A bachelor’s degree is required for this role
  • At least eight years of work experience, including three years managing field teams or handling marketing
  • Commercial life sciences experience in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or a related industry involving healthcare ecosystem stakeholders
  • A record of coaching, training, or mentoring others toward stronger goals and responsibilities
  • Strong communication, negotiation, interpersonal, and relationship-management abilities

Who this fits

You’ll suit a senior field leader who can manage specialists, engage payers and health systems, and work with executive healthcare stakeholders. You must live in Southern California, cover Southern California and Hawaii, and be able to drive extensively and travel overnight when needed. Relocation assistance is unavailable, and the role includes prolonged sitting plus motor-vehicle-record checks tied to business driving.

From the employer

From the beginning, Genentech has been a team of highly dedicated, passionate individuals. We are a place where people are united around a single purpose and an ambitious vision. Together, we aspire to deliver ever better health outcomes for patients while lowering overall healthcare costs. Our goal is to compel the customer to act on behalf of their patients while showing great commitment to the rare disease community, whose support is key. Utilizing innovative methods to identify patients who may benefit from treatment, we must take a highly strategic approach to patient access while assisting patients and their caregivers to navigate the healthcare system.


The Opportunity:


Director, Field Leadership & Strategic Accounts, California South you will be a key leader focused on delivering healthcare solutions to customers and their partners. You will work closely with the Executive Director, Healthcare Market (HED) to shape the strategic vision for the ecosystem and engage with healthcare stakeholders. You will lead a diverse team of experts to drive growth and prioritize patient outcomes, customer satisfaction, and business objectives. This includes managing an ecosystem Commercial team responsible for diverse product portfolios and aligning with ecosystem and therapeutic area priorities.

  • You deeply understand the unique needs of each customer in their pursuit of improved patient outcomes, lower costs and improved quality of care by building, maintaining and leveraging networks and relationships in the healthcare ecosystem and co-creating solutions with customers
  • You contribute to and execute the strategic near and long-term vision and direction for the healthcare ecosystem set by the Executive Director, Healthcare Ecosystem and therapeutic areas to assist Squads in identifying partnerships and, under direction by the Squads executing partnerships which enhance customer experience, improve patient outcomes and deliver on business opportunities for Genentech
  • You lead the development and execution of customer account planning for target account(s) to deliver maximum impact opportunities
  • You are open to business travel to meet customer account needs and attend relevant therapeutic conferences.
  • You build, lead and motivate a diverse team of people with deep functional and therapeutic area expertise. With the ecosystem leadership team, harness the collective expertise of the ecosystem team to engage effectively and compliantly across the ecosystem. Create and foster a culture that enables and requires employees at all levels to live our Operating Principles in all aspects of their work

This is a field based role, it will cover Southern California and Hawaii. Candidates must live in Southern California for consideration.


Once hired, the position title will be 'Healthcare Director' in harmony with internal roles of the same nature.


Who you are:

  • You hold a required Bachelor’s Degree
  • You have 8 or more years work experience with a minimum of 3 years previous field management experience and/or marketing experience with cross-functional industry experience in commercial life sciences (pharma or biotechnology) or related industry engaging with key healthcare ecosystem players (e.g., payers, health systems).
  • You have a proven track record in coaching, training and/or mentoring peers or others as assigned; helping such others to better meet or exceed their goals, targets and other responsibilities
  • Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and relationship management, drive the achievement of objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • You hold an advanced degree
  • You have deep Payer Experience, ideally including local, regional and national understanding of payers in the Ecosystem.
  • You have previous Account Management Experience or alliance/partnership management experience, ideally including local, regional and national understanding of health systems in the Ecosystem.
  • You demonstrate in-depth knowledge of strategy development, including contracting strategy, administration and pull through.
  • You demonstrate strong executive presence and ability to engage with C-Suite executives.
  • You have strong Account Negotiation skills

Relocation Benefits are not available for this role


This is a field-based position. Overnight travel may be required. This position requires significant driving of either a company provided or personal vehicle as well as prolonged periods of sitting, both of which are part of the essential duties and responsibilities of the role. As a result, Genentech, Inc. (Company) from time to time will check your motor vehicle record for purposes of determining your eligibility for driving a Company vehicle or driving any vehicle on Company business.


The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Southern California is $209,900.00 – $389,900.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position is eligible to earn incentive compensation that is calculated and paid in accordance with the applicable Incentive Compensation Plan for the role. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits


Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants.

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